kloiterra

verified.
well, that didn't take too long.

we met tony back in '93 or '94 while working at Holiday Inn. we were all still in high school but he was a few years younger than us.
a typical small town party kid, we took him in and he started hanging out with us.
he had a drum set but had never taken lessons, much like...
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a phone call from my best friend reports the news.
it's too weird--i can't fully commit to accepting it.
i need verification.
i can usually find anything within minutes
and i haven't found a thing for three days
but the stories are becoming clearer, more believable.
it was already believable.
still, you'd think a young man blowing his head off at the lake would be...
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will discuss something interesting later.
for now, academic bulimia--
cram the information now,
in five hours regurgitate it into various blanks
and then enjoy summer break.

in the meantime, just spent way too long but laughed to tears on pho-ho-hotobooth.com.

if you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
we'll have a few laughs.

this is a small town.
it's weird to think that in a month or so, we'll be strangers.
all we'll talk about is the weather.

somewhere in the last five years of blogging here i've recited it before,
but once again, here comes Brautigan to tell me what's happening.

It's Time To Train Yourself

It's time to train yourself
to sleep alone again
and it's...
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my god, dramarama.
the over-dramatic sadness junkie; i can't seem to escape this character in my life. even worse, this one is also the difficult-to-admire perpetuator of an unimpressive stereotype. i assume there's at least one of each in every crowd, but it seems i have a keen ability to find them every time.

she first appeared in my life in December of 2004, just...
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one of my best friends lives in a hotel that is managed by our other best friend. he washes his clothes in the sink when he's in too much of a hurry or too lazy to use the laundry room in the basement.
he irons his clothes dry.
he says "don't you hate it when yr socks aren't completely dry?"
his solution is to put...
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what had been going on for the past 8 months is over because she fucked someone else and didn't talk to me about it until after he'd completely fucked her over. it was the only rule of the noncommitment relationship and she broke it. i guess you could call it justice. a bummer, but not a heartbreak.
i feel bad for her. i don't think...
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goddammit. i said i wouldn't pay to continue to be on SG once my free three months expired.
they expired.
took less than a week, and here i am.
mostly for this very secret place to write.
naked tattoo girls aren't bad either, even though for the most part,
i believe in them as much as i believe in the airbrushed cartoon girls in magazines....
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Clean Dining
if you go out to eat
but have never worked in a restaurant
and haven't seen "Waiting,"
go rent it before you go to another restaurant.
exaggerated? yes, a little bit, but based on reality;
i've worked with every one of those characters at the restaurants where i've worked.

i've been the closing cook in every restaurant i've ever worked, and while experience...
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there's a girl in town here that i've accused of mormonism.
she always seems to be about when i go out
i gave her my old coffeemaker.
when my friends come to town i introduce her as my mormon friend
and they believe me.
she's not a mormon, it's her over-the-top personality.
her facial expressions are too big--they match her laughs
but she uses the...
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guess i'm just not that into it.
i always check out profiles before i look at pics; pretty girls are a dime a dozen,
beautiful women are a rarer find.
anymore, i'm not looking at many pictures.
when i first joined SG, there were only about 600 girls
and they each had a distinct personality, their own flavor--
they seemed like real people.
what made...
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